Religion: Allah & Opium

Squinting skyward last week, Turks
looked for the new moon. When they should see it Ramadan would begin,
Ramadan the mystic month in which the Koran was revealed to Prophet
Mohammed. This year the first glint of the new moon had a special,
dread significance. Turks had been ordered by their stern dictator,
Mustafa Kemal Pasha who made them drop the veil and the fez (TIME,
Feb. 15, 1926 et seg.), that beginning with Ramadan they must no longer
call their god by his Arabic name, Allah.